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Founded in February 2005, acquired by Google Inc. in 2006, YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering them to become the broadcasters of tomorrow.
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NAICS Code Other Motion Picture and Video Industries: 512199
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Google Rolls Out Automated Captioning For YouTube Videos
BNET
- 2009-11-20
Google today announced that they are adding automatic captioning capability to videos on YouTube. This is a fantastic step forward for accessibility for deaf Internet users. Says Vice President Vint Cerf, who is hearing impaired himself: "Google believes that the world's information should be accessible to everyone. One of the...
YouTube Shuts Down API Access, Leaves Set-Top Boxes High and Dry (UPDATED) [YouTube]
BNET
- 2009-11-20
There are two ways for a device to access YouTube: either through the regular web interface, i.e. Flash, or for cleaner integration, through its back end APIs. As of December, Google is shutting off the tap. UPDATED The news comes from the COO of Syabas, the company that makes the...
How Will Chrome OS Make Money? The Secret Is YouTube
BNET
- 2009-11-20
Yesterday Google showed off its forthcoming Chrome OS, leaving many to wonder how exactly the company will monetize it. The answer: it won't. Since Google derives 97% of its revenue from online ads, it simply wants you using a computer that is always online. Specifically, it wants you on a...
Google Automates Captions in YouTube For The Deaf
BNET
- 2009-11-20
Google Nov. 19 paired its automatic speech recognition technology with its YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms that power automatic voicemail transcription in Google Voice to generate captions for video on the fly. This a boon for deaf and hearing impaired users...
Google creates automatic captions for YouTube videos
BNET
- 2009-11-19
Facebook Now the No. 3 Video Site
BNET
- 2009-11-19
While the Googlebot's YouTube is a web video behemoth, Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook nation have become an online video sleeping giant, and it may have just woken up. Facebook jumped to No. 3 behind established video powerhouses YouTube and Hulu in terms of total streams, according to Nielsen's VideoCensus...
Text Captions to Be Added to YouTube Videos
BNET
- 2009-11-19
Google unveiled new technology to automatically add text captions to YouTube videos, The New York Times reported. The technology can only add English-language captions thus far, but Google told the Times its automatic translation system will enable users to read the captions in 51 languages. The captioning technology will roll...
YouTube Launching Automatic Video Captions
BNET
- 2009-11-19
YouTube is readying the launch of an automatic captions feature for the site's videos. This and a new automatic caption timing feature will make it easier for anyone to add captions to their videos, and will enable anyone to read captions on more videos."Since the original launch of captions in...
Vevo Gets Official Launch Date
BNET
- 2009-11-19
Vevo, the highly anticipated music video site from YouTube, Universal, and Sony, now has an official release date. Vevo was previously announced to be launching in December, but now the date of December 8th has been set.Vevo is striving to be the Hulu for music videos. Watch this guy talking...
Vevo Sets Dec. 8 Launch Date
BNET
- 2009-11-18
Vevo, the premium music video site developed by major labels Universal and Sony in conjunction with Google, said this afternoon that it will launch its service on Dec. 8th. The news comes less than a day after another major label, EMI, began using Hulu as a distribution channel for high-quality...
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